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Malaika's Costume: Book Launch and March 2016 Recap

3/28/2016

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On March 5, 2016 about 75-ish(?) people gathered in A Different Booklist bookstore at 746 Bathurst Street just south of Bloor Street from 2-4pm to celebrate "the birth" of my very first picture book, Malaika's Costume.  Planning this event felt like planning my wedding.  I wanted to create an atmosphere that was "very Caribbean"-- warm, fragrant, rhythm-filled, welcoming.  Itah Sadu, author and co-owner of ADB, and her staff created a wonderful window display and filled the shelves with Carnival headpieces that inspired.  Soca and reggae music filled the air.  Punch filled cups and containers containing Caribbean vegetarian fare-- Trinidadian doubles (a fried dough snack filled with curried chick peas), gizzada (a Jamaican tart filled with sweet coconut), cassava chips (Malaika's favourite that is over-priced in Canada), and homemade Jamaican patties.  (I spent three-days making these Jamaican vegan beef patties with jerk sauce made from scratch and flavours called Tingle and Lava.  Thanks to my mother who helped me to make the perfectly-shaped crusts.)  You probably can tell, I am a bit of a foodie.  (My first blog was mostly about becoming vegan.)  I squealed with glee as everyone came-- my family, close friends, people I  I have not seen in 10+ years, coworkers, my fellow CANSCAIP-, Sanofa's Pen-, and SCBWI-members, church friends, and many supporters and their kids.  (They brought kids!) Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the cozy bookstore (reminding me very much of the crowds during Carnival minus the blazing sun), the audience heard co-owner Itah grace us with a welcome, a few words from my publisher at Groundwood Books Sheila Barry, and then my reading of Malaika's Costume.  My illustrator Irene Luxbacher and I signed books from all the attendees.  My Groundwood Books publicist Cindy Ma, marketing director Fred Horler, and editor Nan Froman were all there.  This experience was such a blessing!  And given that we didn't have the horizontal space to do crafts (or Palance), we used the vertical space to dance to the Iwa-Shadow-Butterfly-Wave.  Irene and I signed books and chatted with attendees.  (That day we sold quite a few and now I am also happy to say that the copies at A Different Booklist have sold out (and they are now being ordered). I have included a slideshow of photos taken that day and soon will post some videos (once I figure it out).  Thank you to all who came!  Can't wait for Malaika's Carnival Book Bash at Albion Library on April 2! 
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